Glossary of acronyms:
 CAR Originally meant "Contents of Address portion of Register",
 which is what CAR actually did on the IBM 704.
 CDR Originally meant "Contents of Decrement portion of 
 Register", which is what CDR actually did
 on the IBM 704. Pronounced "Cudder" /kUdd@r/ (as in "a cow
 chews its cdr"). The first syllable is pronounced
 like "could". 
 LISP Originally from "LISt Processing"
 GUI Graphical User Interface
 CLOS Common Lisp Object System. The object oriented
 programming standard for Common Lisp. Based on
 Symbolics FLAVORS and Xerox LOOPS, among others.
 Pronounced either as "See-Loss" or "Closs". See also PCL.
 PCL Portable Common Loops. A portable CLOS implementation.
 Available by anonymous ftp from parcftp.xerox.com:pcl/.
 LOOPS Lisp Object Oriented Programming System. A predecessor
 to CLOS on Xerox Lisp machines.
 X3J13 Subcommittee of the ANSI committee X3 which is
 working on the ANSI Standardization of Common Lisp.
 ANSI American National Standards Institute
 dpANS draft proposed American National Standard (what an ANS
 is called while it's in the public review stage of
 standardization).
 CL Common Lisp
 SC22/WG16 The full name is ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 16. It stands
 for International Organization for Standardization/
 International Electrotechnical Commission, Joint
 Technical Committee 1 Subcommittee 22 (full name
 "Information Technology -- Programming Languages
 and their Environments"), Working Group 16. This
 long-winded name is the ISO working group working
 on an international Lisp standard, (i.e., the ISO
 analogue to X3J13). 
 CLtL1 First edition of Guy Steele's book, 
 "Common Lisp the Language". 
 CLtL2 Second edition of Guy Steele's book,
 "Common Lisp the Language".